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Collecting 'special' critters

Wait, what about the animals with defects that are from incubation mistakes, etc... that are claimed to not be genetic and the lines won't be affected when bred?:rolleyes:

This is the one that kills me, you always here "them" say incubation temps got too high/low, a certain egg in the clutch got dehydrated and the animal ended up with a kink or missing an eye but "it's not genetic", this is a top quality animal with top quality genetics and will make a great breeder one day. This really get me red:angry:

I actually have a georgous female crestie that I got in trade at the Hamburg PA show awhile ago and I would have loved to breed her with the male I had at the time but upon getting home and checking her out more thoroughly I realized she had a twist to her spine and a kink at the base of her tail which was near impossible to see the way she was curled up in the peet moss in the deli cup she was in (my fault for not pulling her out). I was going to cull her but she was so outgoing and friendly I just couldn't bring myself to do it and Im kinda glad that I didn't as she is one of my favorite pets now, she will walk all over me and just hang on my shoulder or head while Im on the computer (Like she is now, on my head! Lol) but if for some reason Im ever forced into having to not care for her any longer (not likely) I would be inclined to cull her off so that she wouldn't get into the wrong hands.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and no matter what, everyone will do as they wish with their animals good or bad. But with all the top notch healthy animals out there why take chances on the defective ones? I personally think soliciting defective/deformed animals because you can't afford what you want is just plain wrong. I say get a second job, weekend job, mow lawns for christ sake and just save until you can afford to get what you really want. Thats what I did and Im sure so many others here as well, I don't think many of us here are independently wealthy, we just worked hard to get what we really loved.

Just my really long 0.02
 
I got a beardie from a teenager's mother who said she got her daughter the dragon and she stopped caring for it. She told me, it was over a year old. When she brought it over, I was horrified. I had a female beardie at the time, she was less than a year old and quite large and robust. That's because I fed her a healthy diet, supplemented with calcium and gave her appropriate heating and lighting. The beardie she brought, that was OLDER than my dragon, wasn't much bigger than a hatchling. Its tail was curled. It was on blue calci-sand that turned the dragon's entire belly blue, it was in a 10 gal tank, and the light had a piece of glass over it, so no UV.

He probably was a perfectly healthy, normal dragon before she ruined him. I kept him completely separate from my dragon. Started to get him to grow and rehomed him with my best friend, who still has Crikey and he is of normal size now and his tail is only slightly curled. She'll never breed him. She is an experienced herp owner.

Crikey is super friendly, loves her kids, etc. He could have been culled, but he is an overall, healthy, albeit, imperfect animal. Like I said, its a personal decision, for better or for worse. If someone feels its better to cull to be sure it NEVER breeds or suffers from its ailments, then that is their decision and they are not wrong in any way to do so, IMO. If someone like me or a few others decides to keep it or do a very careful rehome, so long as the animal won't be bred and doesn't suffer, I see nothing wrong with that. But its a CHANCE taken to rehome. I would NEVER sell such an animal. Or just give it away blindly.
 
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